Alicia Atkins
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1,217 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Alicia Atkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And of course, Alicia, still the baby at 20, was still living at home while she went to school.
It was Alicia that made me look at the diary with a new set of eyes.
We'd been close as little girls.
Almost a decade apart in ages, but temperamentally similar.
We both liked to be alone, and we were okay being alone together.
The slope by the creek where the sun could keep us warm while we were hidden from sight of the house was our private club, where we would go with books or origami paper or markers, whatever had captured our current interest.
Sometimes we remained alone.
More often I'd arrive to find her there, or she'd show up while I was engrossed in something.
We were more than comfortable to be together in silence, which was a relief in a house with so many kids and so much chaos.
When I returned as an adult, Alicia was more sullen, the way Mom had always told me I was at that age.
I never recognized it in myself, but maybe you have to be on the outside to appreciate attitude.
She talked to me as if everything was an imposition or an inconvenience, and she had an annoying habit of speaking of herself in the third person.
Somehow, that put me in mind of the diary for the first time in years.
It was almost as hard to find a time when I was alone in the house as it had been when I was younger, but I waited for my chance.
The board still creaked to mark its place, and it still tilted up out of its cradle when I set my boot down in just the right way.
I could see the book in the shadows of the recess.
But I only crouched down at first, not reaching for it.
A smell of mustiness rose out of the hidden space, and with it came memories.
Of Bertrand, the enigmatic writer.
Of the things he wrote about doing.
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